I think the answer is to use sntp. See this thread:
http://lists.xymon.com/oldarchive/2009/11/msg00134.html
It seems that sntp might not work for some deployments due to variations in
parameter usage. So you might need to make your own wrapper script that
runs sntp with suitable parameters to get the required output.
Xymon v5 will have it's own ntp code and this problem will go away.
J
▸ quoted from Matthias Pingel
On 20/09/2014 6:11 AM, <user-4d56554dcd21@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,
I have a Suse Server and have take the "ntp" in the hosts.cfg.
I get allways this Message back.
Service ntp on SERVER is OK (up)
Command: ntpdate -u -q -p 2 IP-Adresse 2>&1
!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WARNING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ntpdate program is deprecated and should not be used any more. To
quote the upstream ntp developers:
"The functionality ntpdate offered is now provided by the ntpd daemon
itself. If you call ntpd with the command line option -q it will
retrieve the current time and set it accordingly."
Please check the Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon man page and
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DeprecatingNtpdate
for further information.
You can replace the ntpdate call with "rcntp ntptimeset" to achieve an
inital poll of the servers specified in /etc/ntp.conf.
The program /usr/sbin/sntp offers comparable functionality to ntpdate.
Specifically
sntp -P no -r pool.ntp.org
is equivalent to
ntpdate pool.ntp.org
For further details please refer to the man page of sntp.
sntp: unable to write PID to /etc/sntp.pid
sntp: Permission denied
Can you say me how I can change?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Matthias Pingel